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Innovation and creativity drive UAE's progress
The UAE under the leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khaliah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (may Allah help save him) is distinguished by its constant quest to succeed and pioneer in most places. Thus, the UAE generally encourages the lifestyle of excellence, originality and imagination as being a methodology of work at all the government institutions across the nation.

To this level, His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Community and Youth Development, stated in his speech introducing the Abu Dhabi Entrepreneurship Forum (ADEF) 2013: the UAE features of possessing all of the components of pioneering and is dedicated to offering a broad weather that promotes leadership, originality and effort and also creates development and progress the whole country. ADEF was recently organized by Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development under the patronage of The Highness of his General Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.

Now, the UAE realizes that starting a society primarily based on originality and ingenuity has turned into crucial to change into knowledge overall economy as well as realize the objectives of the sustainable and comprehensive development, while simultaneously achieving leadership and excellence in most aspects globally and regionally. For that purpose, UAE adopted many initiatives to inspire innovation and imagination, especially creating the Technical Innovation City in Abu Dhabi, with assistance from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to become a facility for training, exploration & technology transfer. Besides, the UAE government sponsored several awards to promote imagination and investigation, like the Young Emirati Innovators Award, the Patent Award, and also Zayed Future Energy Prize, the largest prize globally which focuses on advancement of innovative ways to produce renewable energy future. This enhances the fundamental attention provided by the UAE authorities to medical research primarily based on originality and ingenuity aiming to make national cadres possessing the resources of contemporary understanding and also able to using these resources to deliver the goals of advancement in all the sectors.

The UAE's keen attention to build a culture of innovation and ingenuity has turned into a concrete reality whose results that are positive started to focus in the excellence of its within the global competitiveness indexes. Based on the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report (2013 2014) issued in September 2013, UAE was ranked 19th overall on the Global Competitiveness Index beating so many innovative nations like France, Australia plus Ireland. On several crucial sub-indexes the UAE was among the best places on the planet, wherever it placed 1st in roads quality, absence of organized containment and also crimes of the consequences of inflation.

The statement clearly demonstrated that for the eighth consecutive years the UAE has maintained its existence among the Creativity-and-Innovation-based Economies); the largest growth amount of worldwide economies.

The improvement that's been attained by the UAE in this particular area resulted from the adoption of imagination & originality strategy by government institutions across the nation. In this particular context, the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and also Research' (ECSSR) had an excellent part in marketing the lifestyle of originality and imagination through its many events and activities. ECSSR has arranged last month the 4th Education Annual Conference titled Future of Education in the UAE: Innovation and Knowledge Production'. The conference addressed the connection between innovation based training as well as the improvement process. H.E. Dr. Jamal Seanad, Director General of ECSSR, worried that the unique pillars of present day economic climate rely a lot on innovation. and science. The culture which generates understanding and also make use of it to deliver the improvement procedure will be the only one to prevail on the world's competitiveness map.